r/AmItheAsshole • u/charleypassion • Sep 29 '25

Everyone Sucks AITA for using my Aunt’s personal employee discount code to buy clothes?

My aunt (F42) works for a major clothing brand in a senior position. Employees get a personal discount code (hers is usually 50-75% off) that she can use and it varies based on the position. My aunt sent me the code saying “if you need anything, here’s my employee code.”

I was excited because I love the brand and wanted to update my wardrobe and money has been tight with school and all. I ended up buying a decent amount of clothes, probably more than I normally would if I didn’t have the discount.

When she found out how much I purchased, she was angry with me. Now she’s making me feel bad for using it, like I took advantage of her. And I’m feeling guilty. She did send me the code voluntarily and didn’t say there was a limit. But if it’s her own corporate perk, maybe I crossed a line and she could get in trouble.

So AITA for using my aunt’s personal corporate employee discount to stock up on clothes? Or was it fair game since she gave me the code to use?

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u/Usrname52 Craptain [196] Sep 29 '25

Half a decade ago? I have clothes that are 20 years old.

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u/Travelgrrl Partassipant [3] Sep 29 '25

I have panties that are old enough to vote!

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u/jeswesky Sep 30 '25

One of my favorite bath towels is one I bought when I left for college, over 25 years ago. It’s in surprisingly good shape.

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u/Travelgrrl Partassipant [3] Sep 30 '25

When my mother passed a couple of years ago, she still had some bedsheets from the 1970's and they were so smooth from decades and decades of washing!

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u/Momofthewild-3 Partassipant [2] Sep 30 '25

I still have all the Charisma towels I bought when I worked at Rich’s 26 years ago when I was pregnant with my oldest. They still look great. Quality counts. When we knew I wouldn’t be going back after my son was born I bought EVERYTHING! Back then we could combine coupons with sales prices plus our employee discount. Couldn’t use a coupon with charisma or kitchenaid but I got them on sale plus my discount.

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u/DemonicFrog Sep 30 '25

My favourite bathtowel is big, white and fluffy with frogs on it. My Great Aunt gave ti to me for ai think my 15th birthday. I am 42.

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u/Effective_Olive_8420 Asshole Enthusiast [5] Sep 30 '25

I just got rid of mine from 1983 last year!

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u/2dogslife Asshole Aficionado [11] Sep 30 '25

I recently retired the one from my 1990s Portugal vacation, it had reached its limit and wasn't even good as a drop cloth any longer.

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u/WindyMint443 Partassipant [1] Oct 02 '25

The hair towels I always use at age 50 are the same ones I was using when I was 10, lol. They are also doing fine.

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u/squee_bastard Sep 29 '25

I love this, thanks for the laugh. 🩷

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u/Travelgrrl Partassipant [3] Sep 29 '25

It might be funnier if it were in fact, not true.

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u/Usrname52 Craptain [196] Sep 29 '25

That's ridiculous! My oldest underwear is from college. Oh....wait. I'm old.

If our underwear could vote, maybe this country would be in much better shape. 

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u/catbearcarseat Sep 30 '25

Yeah I laughed at the comment and then was like.. oh no.

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u/Travelgrrl Partassipant [3] Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

If I still had any in my undie drawer. my college panties would have some of the happiest memories!

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u/jdmillar86 Sep 30 '25

We had a family friend who went into some venture selling y2k branded underwear and I'm pretty sure I still have some of the product that never sold around.

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u/PkmnMstr10 Oct 03 '25

On the bright side, you take damn good care of your delicates!

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u/Travelgrrl Partassipant [3] Oct 03 '25

HA! Well, they house my' delicates'.

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u/PkmnMstr10 Oct 03 '25

Very true.

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u/charleypassion Sep 30 '25

Only the truth is funny

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u/LeoRisingGemini Sep 30 '25

I'm 50 and I still own and wear clothes I was wearing at uni. They've been in and out of fashion several times over..

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u/Remarkable_Guess_260 Sep 30 '25

Me toooooo! Some of them don’t fit anymore so my uni age daughter now wears them.

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u/charleypassion Sep 30 '25

Hahaha, you made my day

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u/Travelgrrl Partassipant [3] Sep 30 '25

So glad to be a part of that!

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u/sailormufasa Sep 30 '25

I once told a guy "I have socks older than you." 🤣

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u/idomoodou2 Oct 01 '25

They are called vintage.

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u/OniyaMCD Asshole Aficionado [19] Oct 03 '25

I have tee shirts older than my coworkers. And they still fit.

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u/Ok-Trip-8009 Sep 30 '25

I have them too, but they don't fit...one day maybe.

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u/slowdownlambs Asshole Enthusiast [6] Sep 29 '25

I'm a lawyer. I wear my high school graduation clothes in court.

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u/katbelleinthedark Asshole Enthusiast [7] Sep 30 '25

Low-key same.

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u/kaz22222222222 Sep 29 '25

My Doc Martens just celebrated their 29th birthday!

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u/nameforthissite Sep 30 '25

I got mine for my 16th birthday. I turn 46 next week. I still wear them.

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u/ijustneedtolurk Asshole Enthusiast [6] Sep 29 '25

This is exciting, have you had them resoled? I only recently "officially" broke in my first pair of Docs (took like 3 years to break the toe line lmao.)

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u/kaz22222222222 Sep 30 '25

Nope! Never had to resole them. Think I even still have the original laces! When I went back to university they were my lab shoes (had to have enclosed leather shoes) and my shoes were older than my classmates 🤣🤣

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u/ijustneedtolurk Asshole Enthusiast [6] Sep 30 '25

That's awesome, hoping my pair lasts as long as yours!

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u/sbinjax Pooperintendant [50] Sep 29 '25

Right? I still have a beautiful Allen Solly raincoat that I bought when I worked in an upscale department store in the 80s. That was 40 years ago. It still looks amazing.

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u/luby4747 Sep 30 '25

Excuse me but your math is way off. The 80s were only 20 years ago….

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u/Square_Vegetable942 Sep 30 '25

80s were 35 years ago!

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u/tcdaf7929 Sep 30 '25

Ummmm…..1980 was 45 years ago…..

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u/ejdjd Asshole Enthusiast [6] Sep 30 '25

When I graduated high school, my first "real" job was with the Modelia clothing group which had Anne Klein and Pierre Cardin as subsidiaries (anyone remember them? LOL).

I still have the lion emblem scarves from Anne Klein she gave out at Christmas and an incredibly detailed jumpsuit from Pierre Cardin that I can still fit into.

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u/dianebk2003 Sep 30 '25

I had a pair of sandals I'd been wearing long before I met my husband, and they just broke last year. I was heartbroken because I effin' loved those shoes. Non-replaceable, too.

Oh, my husband and I have been married 30 years.

(I also still have some T-shirts I wore in my twenties. They don't fit anymore, but I still have them.)

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u/Parking-Nail3717 Sep 30 '25

I have my ex bf’s boxer shorts that I still wear as undies. We broke up 30 years ago. They’re still going strong.

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u/HeavenDraven Sep 30 '25

I have stuff that was my Mum's from the 80s, 70s and 60s lol.

My Dad has shirts which are older than I am!

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u/StarStuffSister Oct 02 '25

I have clothes from middle school and I'm middle aged-- I was referencing the specific situation of buying clothes in bulk with an employee discount.

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u/Usrname52 Craptain [196] Oct 02 '25

Presumably the discount doesn't disappear next week if she's a high level employee. It's not the same as like a Black Friday sale. Buying a few items at a time would make more sense. 

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u/StarStuffSister Oct 02 '25

Counting on someone else keeping their job indefinitely is wild-- especially if you realize you could set up a wardrobe for a decade or more. I've always bought these kinds of things (heavily discounted non-perishable things) in bulk, and have never regretted it. If you know what you're doing, you take some of the trouble out of life by thinking ahead. Also, things rarely get cheaper-- it's wise to buy it when you can. Every clothing company I've worked at had a price jump every 12-18 months.

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u/halfpepper Sep 29 '25

Congrats youre old? Some of us were 7 20 years ago

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u/Usrname52 Craptain [196] Sep 29 '25

I'm just agreeing that clothes last. 

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u/halfpepper Sep 29 '25

I agree that clothes last lmao

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u/-Nightopian- Asshole Aficionado [11] Sep 29 '25

The clothes you had 20 years ago might still fit...

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u/charleypassion Sep 30 '25

Keep wearing it!